‘A quarter spreading propaganda about textbooks’

Education Minister Dipu Moni told parliament yesterday that a vested quarter is spreading misinformation and propaganda about textbooks to create confusion ahead of the election.

"Their purpose is to incite people against the government by misusing religion and creating instability and anarchy," she said.

The minister said this while participating in a discussion on a thanksgiving motion on the President's speech in Parliament.

Terming most of the propaganda about textbooks false, she said Awami League has never done anything against the Quran and the Sunnah.

Dipu Moni said these are being spread purposely through photoshopping the pictures of various books and editing the text.

"Also, non-curriculum books are being spread by referring to these books as the current syllabus," she said.

"Offensive, nasty statements are being made about book authors, ministers and academics. They are being threatened," she added.

The education minister informed that two committees have been formed regarding the errors in the textbooks.

"Any errors in the book are being and will be corrected," she said.

The education minister also said the intention of those who are criticising the books is not to correct mistakes.

"If their intentions were honest, they would have suggested correcting mistakes through constructive criticism."

Meanwhile, Jatiya Party MP Kazi Firoz Rashid said there is extreme corruption in the financial sector.

"Bank money is being freely looted and is siphoned abroad. Corruption is taking a totalitarian form in today's society," he said.

Firoz also said the President has no scope to address these issues.